Secular trends of sizes at birth in Japanese healthy infants born between 1962 and 1988

Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 155-161

  Oishi, Kazuyo ^a   Honda, Sumihisa ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Kusano, Yosuke ^b   Abe, Yasuyo ^a   Moji, Kazuhiko ^a   Takemoto, Tai Ichiro ^c   Tahara, Yasuaki ^a   Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Wesleyan University   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest circumference; Environmental adaptability; Head circumference; Height; Secular trend; Size at birth; Weight

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BODY HEIGHT; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HEAD; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 14844347854     PISSN: 13453475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.23.155     Document Type: Article

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